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Show Poultry Pointers for Use in Breeding Pens The Inclusion of birds In. the flock that have other than straight breast-1 bones Is a matter - for the Individual to decide. It Is inadvisable to use males with this defect, no matter what may be decided regarding females. fe-males. A crooked breast Is a deformity, however. The trap-ncsler, possibly, 13 more likely to use breeding birds with this deformity than a breeder not knowing know-ing actual record of the birds. Where birds have been trap-nested It will be an easy matter to leave out those birds which do not lay normal-shaped or standard-stzed eggs. It Is not expected that each bird will lay exhibition-quality eggs, but eggs that are pronouncedly abnormal will certainly not give optimum hatching hatch-ing results. |